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August 4, 2007

It's a Gas

Methane seeping from the seafloor sustains microbes that serve as the
base of the food chain for communities of animals, like these
tubeworms, which thrive in the sunless depths. Far more natural gas is sequestered on the seaflooror leaking from
itthan can be drilled from all the existing wells on Earth.